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Poetry exploring place and displacement,
exile and belonging
Just publishedBroadstone Books, 2025
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Poems giving voice to women in myths and the arts
The poems in Fire Ashes Wings follow—with cunning originality—in the footsteps of Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Alicia Ostriker. These poems are probing, widely and wildly imagined, and, best of all, deeply human. Ruth Kessler’s poems are multifaceted lyrical jewels, sparking, igniting, shining. Their refracted light is most welcome.— Ralph Black
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Artist Book by Sue Leopard
The poem “Hummingbird” was made into a limited edition artist’s book
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Choral Composition by Oliver Caplan
The poems "Eve to Posterity", "The Absinthe Drinker", and "My name is" from Fire Ashes Wings were set to music as Eve - Absinthe - Alice by composer Oliver Caplan.
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Composition by Oliver Caplan, Performed by Leslie Jacobson Kaye
A recital, featuring "Woman in an Ermine Collar" from Fire Ashes Wings, set to music by Oliver Caplan, commissioned and premiered by Mezzo Leslie Jacobson Kaye.
